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Lot 5022

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 11 000 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 17.31 g, 9h). Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, wearing long chiton, holding kentron and reins, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer; ivy leaf on vine below horses to left; in exergue, grain ear left / Head of Arethousa left, hair in ornate sphendone, wearing large hoop earring and linear necklace with small frontal pendant; four dolphins swimming around. Fischer-Bossert, Coins (Tudeer) 82 (V30/R55); SNG ANS 290; BMC 217–8; Dewing 849; de Luynes 1218; Gillet 658; McClean 2718; J. Hirsch XXXII (Virzi), lot 339 (all from the same dies); HGC 2, 1342. Lightly toned, scrapes, double struck on obverse. Good VF.
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